SOCI 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Margaret Atwood, Ethnocentrism, Cultural Relativism
4 Jul 2016
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Belief that individuals social environment determines how you behave ex: provide a loving and secure and all will be ne. Contact with signi cant others is critical ex: positive role models. Also critical to the nurture side are the agents of socialization: family. Considered the strongest socializing in uence in a persons life. The family grants ses (social economic status) reinforces gender stereotyping as well as cultural capital ( values, beliefs, attitudes, competencies : peers. During adolescence (and throughout life) peer groups in uence who we become. Peer groups help young people prepare for adulthood ex: anticipatory socialization: education. The in uence of all the time and energy spent at school cannot be underestimated. School is also your rst involvement in a bureaucracy as well as its hidden curriculum: media. Media, tv, magazines, etc, help de ne our world. Some question the usefulness of the nature/nurture debate in the rst place.
